Special to The Detroit News
Tampa, Fla. — In olden days, before something called COVID slammed planet Earth, a Yankees game at George M. Steinbrenner Field would have been a brash affair, complete with a loud crowd and bellowing beer vendors.
Friday’s scene instead was as low-key as the game the Yankees and Tigers played. It finished in a 1-1 tie. Attendance was a pandemic-pinched 2,352.
And the Tigers weren’t complaining.
They got enough satisfying pitching, beginning with starter Matthew Boyd, to hold a celebrity Yankees lineup to six hits.